.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 216 152
Rank change year-on-year -128 -64 -40
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 302 796 1,087
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.71% 1.26% 2.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.45% 6.25% 8.01%
Number of salaries quoted 273 559 994
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £112,000 £87,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,783 12,735 13,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.93% 20.17% 27.08%
Number of salaries quoted 4,437 7,837 11,079
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £89,000 £86,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 16 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +11 144 £80,000 +14.29% 103
North of England -88 62 £55,000 -3.51% 82
North West -43 44 £57,500 -4.17% 48
South East -93 33 £57,500 +5.50% 107
South West +21 29 £48,750 -15.22% 22
Midlands -57 17 £60,000 +26.32% 40
East of England -25 13 £55,000 +10.00% 37
Yorkshire -42 13 £60,000 +20.00% 17
West Midlands -3 12 £60,000 +41.18% 22
North East -4 5 £48,750 +14.71% 18
East Midlands -42 5 £60,000 +26.32% 17
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 22 (7.28%) IIS
2 14 (4.64%) CMS
3 13 (4.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (2.65%) Confluence
5 5 (1.66%) Umbraco
6 4 (1.32%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.33%) Kentico
Applications
1 3 (0.99%) S-PLUS
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Carpe Diem
1 2 (0.66%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.33%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.33%) Magento
2 1 (0.33%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 205 (67.88%) Azure
2 90 (29.80%) AWS
3 44 (14.57%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (10.93%) GitHub
5 30 (9.93%) Serverless
6 25 (8.28%) Azure Service Bus
7 23 (7.62%) SaaS
8 22 (7.28%) Power Platform
9 20 (6.62%) Azure Functions
10 18 (5.96%) Power Automate
11 15 (4.97%) Azure Logic Apps
11 15 (4.97%) GCP
12 12 (3.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 11 (3.64%) Azure App Service
14 10 (3.31%) PowerApps
15 9 (2.98%) Azure AKS
15 9 (2.98%) GitHub Actions
16 7 (2.32%) Azure Data Factory
17 6 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
17 6 (1.99%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.32%) Internet
2 2 (0.66%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.33%) HTTP
3 1 (0.33%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (37.09%) SQL Server
2 61 (20.20%) MongoDB
3 50 (16.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 27 (8.94%) Elasticsearch
5 21 (6.95%) NoSQL
6 13 (4.30%) Data Hub
6 13 (4.30%) Power BI
6 13 (4.30%) SQL CLR
7 12 (3.97%) MySQL
7 12 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (2.98%) Redis
9 8 (2.65%) NonStop SQL
9 8 (2.65%) Relational Database
9 8 (2.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (1.99%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (1.32%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 47 (15.56%) Git
2 18 (5.96%) JIRA
3 16 (5.30%) GitLab
4 13 (4.30%) Octopus Deploy
5 12 (3.97%) Visual Studio
6 11 (3.64%) TeamCity
7 6 (1.99%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (1.66%) Jenkins
8 5 (1.66%) Postman
8 5 (1.66%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (1.32%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.32%) MSTest
9 4 (1.32%) NUnit
9 4 (1.32%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.32%) Vite
10 3 (0.99%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.99%) JMeter
10 3 (0.99%) Selenium
11 1 (0.33%) Moq
11 1 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 60 (19.87%) Finance
2 57 (18.87%) Social Skills
3 23 (7.62%) Back Office
3 23 (7.62%) Retail
4 15 (4.97%) Law
5 14 (4.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (3.97%) Legal
7 10 (3.31%) Advertising
7 10 (3.31%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (2.65%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.32%) Banking
9 7 (2.32%) Front Office
10 6 (1.99%) Automotive
10 6 (1.99%) Marketing
11 4 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Electronics
12 1 (0.33%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 205 (67.88%) Developer
2 117 (38.74%) .NET Developer
3 52 (17.22%) Senior
4 42 (13.91%) Full-Stack Developer
5 41 (13.58%) Software Developer
6 36 (11.92%) C# Developer
7 34 (11.26%) Senior Developer
8 32 (10.60%) Software Engineer
9 30 (9.93%) Lead
10 21 (6.95%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 18 (5.96%) .NET Software Engineer
11 18 (5.96%) Senior .NET Developer
12 16 (5.30%) C# .NET Developer
12 16 (5.30%) Head of Development
12 16 (5.30%) Lead Developer
13 14 (4.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 12 (3.97%) Azure Developer
15 10 (3.31%) Engineering Manager
15 10 (3.31%) Senior C# Developer
16 9 (2.98%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 302 (100.00%) .NET
2 101 (33.44%) .NET Framework
3 100 (33.11%) ASP.NET
3 100 (33.11%) React
4 95 (31.46%) AngularJS
5 78 (25.83%) Entity Framework
6 76 (25.17%) HTML
7 66 (21.85%) RESTful
8 63 (20.86%) CSS
9 62 (20.53%) ASP.NET Web API
10 55 (18.21%) ASP.NET MVC
11 46 (15.23%) Vue
12 40 (13.25%) HTML5
13 37 (12.25%) Node.js
14 28 (9.27%) Blazor
14 28 (9.27%) REST
15 20 (6.62%) CSS3
16 19 (6.29%) LINQ
17 16 (5.30%) Redux
17 16 (5.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.26%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.30%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.64%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (4.30%) AI Agents
4 13 (4.30%) Private Cloud
4 13 (4.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 11 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.98%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.65%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.32%) Digital TV
8 7 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.32%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.66%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.99%) Derivative
10 3 (0.99%) IoT
10 3 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.66%) Credit Risk
11 2 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.66%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.97%) Windows
2 14 (4.64%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (52.98%) Agile
2 142 (47.02%) Full-Stack Development
3 120 (39.74%) Microservices
4 108 (35.76%) CI/CD
5 91 (30.13%) DevOps
6 90 (29.80%) Software Engineering
7 74 (24.50%) MVC
8 59 (19.54%) Clean Code
9 57 (18.87%) TDD
10 55 (18.21%) Problem-Solving
11 51 (16.89%) Scrum
12 49 (16.23%) Continuous Improvement
13 43 (14.24%) Containerisation
14 37 (12.25%) Mentoring
15 36 (11.92%) Kanban
16 31 (10.26%) BDD
17 30 (9.93%) SDLC
18 28 (9.27%) Fintech
18 28 (9.27%) Unit Testing
19 27 (8.94%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 271 (89.74%) C#
2 129 (42.72%) SQL
3 117 (38.74%) JavaScript
4 77 (25.50%) TypeScript
5 34 (11.26%) Python
6 13 (4.30%) Rust
7 8 (2.65%) T-SQL
8 7 (2.32%) Go
9 5 (1.66%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.32%) VB.NET
11 3 (0.99%) Erlang
11 3 (0.99%) PHP
12 2 (0.66%) Bicep
12 2 (0.66%) C
12 2 (0.66%) Java
12 2 (0.66%) XAML
13 1 (0.33%) C++
13 1 (0.33%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (10.26%) Degree
2 16 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.66%) Master's Degree
4 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (1.32%) Security Cleared
5 3 (0.99%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.30%) QA
2 12 (3.97%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.32%) WCAG
4 4 (1.32%) GDPR
5 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 70 (23.18%) Docker
2 13 (4.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.66%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (13.58%) Kubernetes
2 22 (7.28%) Terraform
3 2 (0.66%) Ansible
3 2 (0.66%) Grafana
Vendors
1 118 (39.07%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.30%) VMware
3 7 (2.32%) Facebook
3 7 (2.32%) YouTube
4 4 (1.32%) Dynatrace
5 3 (0.99%) Databricks
5 3 (0.99%) Oracle
6 2 (0.66%) Google
6 2 (0.66%) Intapp
6 2 (0.66%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.66%) New Relic
6 2 (0.66%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.66%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.33%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.33%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.33%) IONA
7 1 (0.33%) Okta
7 1 (0.33%) SAP
7 1 (0.33%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.33%) Telerik